The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON SENUEO®P, EDPTOR AND PROPRIBTOR, guys B. W. CORNER OF NAS8AU AND FULTON OTH; TBRMS, ~sh i advance, DAjL ¥ HERALD. 2 conte per sopy, Fit WELKLY UBRALD, wry ha dation, ‘@nnum, te pny or tbo any part @ the Contino, VOLUNTARY CURRESPONDENCE, containing reac, molitted from any quarter of the worid—it wed eit be ed lly pase for. oS pz enna, Bo rt of Creat Britosn, gar Ouk FoReiGn CORRESPONDENTS aku eee Requesten TO Ama. 4:4 Lurrens ap Pace: NO NOTE shen of Gnonymous communcations. We do se remern those yejecte JOB PRINTING executed with neainess, o? <apness and dee VERTISEMENT'S renewed every day. No. 303 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING FOSLO'S GARDEN, Broatway—Koxi—Ticst Rore— Beawcis oWWERY THEATRE Sowery—Denon Loveu—Lire 1x New York—Vs.5T DB Sam. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond sireet—SeLI—DANcinG—ROLAND POR Ax OLIVER. PALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—lion Camst—Fing Raven. URAMBERS STREET CHXATRE, Gate Burtou's}—Gus- wanes OF Moscow—JBAN Remy. Ss BNDM'S AMERICAN MUAEUM. Brosaway—, lem Tuvan —Rowaxcy uNDER Dirrwucties, Evening— BROADWAY VARIPTIES, 47? Brosdwoy—Tuw Pirie @eveamas— Nav, T9B Goov FoR NoTuING. S80, CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway ~Bamoriay Puaroxmances—Werro. lee". SERENADERS, 585 Broadway—Ermiorian pint —I:, THovaTORE. Rew Vork, Friday, October 31, 1856. ‘The News. The steamship Asia, now fully due at this port from Liverpool, uad not been telegraphed at twelve @’clock last night. In another column we give an eloquent letter, on the issnes of the day, trom Hon. Kenneth Raynor, the favorite son of North Carolina. He urgee, in stcong terms, the amalgation of all parties to defeat Mr. Buchanan and the nigger driving spoils hunting democracy, and recommends the Fillmore men of Peunsylvauia to support the union electoral ticket in that State, as a means of accomplishing an end so desirable for the peace of the country. We com- mend Mr. Raynor's timely letter to the particular attention of ovr readers. "Tne Secretary of the Interior has decided against the ruling of the late Commissioner of Pensions, making a discrimination between the volunteer aud veguiar service. The soldiers of either service are therefore, equally entitled to bounty land. A large namber of cla that have been suspended pending the decivion of this question, will now be satisded. The Academy ot Music was filled lust evening by a highly respectable andience, called together to hsten to addressee George B. Cheever, D. D. " and Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, on the “Moral aud veligious aspects of the questions of the extension o/ slavery in the United States.” We publish elsewhere in our colugns the details of the new: m Ni! , received by the way of New Orleans, a brief cutligg of which has already appeared. Particulars of the blogiy battles or M- saya and Granada are given. They fully conlr eur previou ts, The loss of Walker's force in these engacements was sbout sixteen killed ani twenty slightly wounded, while that of the enemy amounted to eleven hundred men. The latest re- port states that was retreating from Ma saya, and that | Walker would set out in pur suit a3 soon as ops had somewhat recovered from the fatigue of a fight of forty-eight hoars da ration. Mr. Wheeler, the American Minister, was Jying dangerously il!, having experienzed an attack of apoplexy. The Sesretary of State for Foreign Relations oi New Granada publishes, under date of September 4, a circular ts the consuls and vice-consula of the republic abroad, in which he gives them directions as to the manner they have t> make up their re- ports on all kinds of shipping trom foreign ports to thove of the republic, and orders them to send in special reporte on all sabjects of foreign commerce, prices current. ‘he principal export articles frou New Granada to foreign ports, &c. The examination of the commercial affiirs of Wight Brothers was continued yesterday in the Saperior Court, and farther adjourned. We have files from Tucks Isiands to the éth inet. The Royse! Standard of that day says:—We muy, with reason, congratulate the pabdlic 2 presaut eonditien of oar salt market. Ibe | weeka of dry weather has redeemed these islunds from a dis tressing prospect. The paus taroaghout the colony are in good order; 9,460 bushels have been exported, price, 18 cents. The otton yesterday embraced about 000 a 700 bales, The market closed steady, without five cen’ lover, change ju prices. Flour was abo especially on common aad mediam grades of State, while sales were made to a far exteat, including some lots for export. Wheat was from 2c.a 3. lower, especial ym non and fair grades of red. Com sold pre ly at from 68c. a 6 for Western mixed. Pork sold at #214921 12) for mens, with small lota at $21 agars were again , and in some transactions em st an advance per Wa; thi i aorive, and close eases as bigh braced at i boxes, all at colan e was quiet wre active; grain was 84. a S4d.a 0id., and ia was taken at ld.a 2. To Hdvre wheat was nada. 114., and flour at 2s. engaged at 20c. pe Where 1s McMaster? called, again mn McMaster, who styles himself ia ring letters intended for pub- Editor and Proprietor of come out and prove buccane lic ¢irenlation as the the Freeman's Journal,” t his charges, which be has promised to make good, ef Fremont’s Catholic We know the sources from which Master McMaster has derived his in- formation, and we want bim to produce his wit- nesses and their sworn testimony. We have asked him, implored him and defied hita to do this; but be shrinks from the task. We have leoked over the last Freemon’s Journal, however, in vain, for the slightest allusion to Fremont's Catholicity. The subject is ignored, and perhaps peremptorily tabooed by the Archbishop. But this dodging and ehirking the issue will not do. McMaster must bring forth bis witnesses, or stand coa- demned as a dishonest trickster—as a sort of demociatic “short boy ”—sereening himself under the rote of the Archbishop. We have caught the Puritanical rat Brooks, and we are now in pursuit of this Jesuitical “mousing owl” MeMaster; but be won't come out. A small reward will be given to any hungry Fillmore man who will successfully use his infiuence with the Archbishop in bringing out McMaster with his “ branding irone” against Fremont. Will not the Archbishop himself oblige us in bringing out hie serving man McMaster ? —_— —_ Feanrvg@asses ot Maron Woon.—One of our cotemporaries thinks that we are making fearful pastes at Mayor Wood by alluding to the Hunt- ington case. This is rather far-fetched. Be- tween the Huntington case and the case of Wood even on Marvine’s showing, there is a tremen- douse distance. A more cruel pase at Wood, by far, is the attack of the same journal upon him Decanse be allowed himself to be influgaced in making an appointment of City Treasurer by letter from the chief editor of said journal. Mr. Wood has not come up to the mark cer- tainly, and he admits and accounts for it. But he promises to do all that can be done: he has every interest in keeping his promise; and he has —what no other candidate is certain to have— the energy and the will to accomplish what he tries, if only he tries in earnest. How the Politicians Buy and Sell Votes Among Themeelves. A few evenings ago a small tea party of politi- clans belonging to the several minor factions which have nominated candidates for the Mayor- alty, met in room number fourteen, at the Astor House, and disenssed the political questions of the day. The first faction was that which has put ferward Mr. Libby, and it was represented by Messrs, Dillon, Sweeny, Engs and McKeon, They claimed to represent the oyster house de- mocracy, and stated that they carried in their pockets trom four to six thousand white voters. The next deputation to this extraordinary tea party represented Mr, Bleecker, who claims to have been put forward by the republican or nig- ner worshipping faction. This party was repre- sented hy James B, Taylor and Horace Greeley, who claimed from ten to fifteen thousand votes, who might be appropriately termed’ white nig- ners. The last faction in the tea party was the new offshoot, which bas put forward or tacked itself to the tail of ex-Judge Whiting. It was represented on this occasion by Peter Cooperand Mr. Erben, the famous organ-grinder, and claim- ed two, three or four thousand votes—they did not exactly know how many, and were rather in- detinite in their calculations. For three long hours did this nice little tea party of politicians, claiming to represent the three different factions in city politics, debate and debate and discuss and discuss as to how they should go to work to buy out or sell out or trade or barter or traffic all the white nigger votes, s0 as to unite the whole batch in one over- whelming mass against the formidable Rinaldo of the democratic party—the terrible Jack the Giant Killer of Tammany Hall—that awful, un- mitigated, atrocious fellow, by name Fernando Wood. Dilion & Company, on the part of the Libby taction, contended that it would be the best po- licy for the two other factions to unite with them and sell cut the friends of Bleecker and Whiting. But this was opposed by Philosopher Greeley and the Bleecker faction, on the plea that they pos- sessed the largest number of white nigger voters, and therefore the Libby and Whiting parties should make over their stock in trade to the auc- tioneer. On the other hand, Cooper and Erben fought stoutly for their side of the house. They contended that, althongh they had the smaller number of white nigger votes in the market, the quahity of their caudidate was highly to be re- commended, and that for pluck personality, fight, eloquence and unserupulousness the attoracy was tar superior to the hotel keeper or the auc- tioneer. ged that Little Bitters was the greatest man of the lot. The debate contiaued for a considerable length of time, but no result was arrived at. Neither ion would buy or sell out, there being too iy differences of opinion as to the terms of the They org uch was the situation of this famous coalition st the breaking up of its last meeting. We ua- derstand tbat another gathering of the clans will take place this evening, at room No. 14, Astor Honse, to see if some bargain cannot be made to mite the forces upon a single candidate. It has uggested by several of the patriots in the iuterest ot Libby, that, if no better arrangement can be it will be a good idea to put up all the different factions at a public sale, aud let Mc cker—one of the candidates, who is also an nerr—sell them off to any one of the candi- s who will offer the highest price, in the way of fet places, high sajames and easy means of uption. If this proposition is accepted, let white voters be knocked down at the sawe » to the highest bidder, after the same fashion t i inia withoat ers in Okd Virginia wi er the proclamation of While cocted dow bargains are being con- that the Know No- e put forward Me. usy in the retail trade, buytag thing wir in lote to snit in the u Kuow Noth and selling vote town It seems that the illing to receive ea wre votes of . With out regard to their nativity or political proclivi- ies. No particular regard be paid te the peculiar principles of party, provided a few got for the man, ander a promise of eu appears that some lately been rman and go for Barker. Irieh voters who are ed to It really appears that this matter of the May g every other pe al ques One doe* not hear a whisper amoug the ticians in relation to Buchasan, Fremont or Fillmore—all are grasping at the seven millions is annually paid in taxes by the people of In the midst of such scenes of corrup- lity, folly and humbug, it is the best, the safest and the surest plan to re-elect the man who has had experience in the Mayoralty—who is willing to lay out his whole existence to give us a good government—who is distinctly identified with the movement for euch a reform in the man- ner of managing our municipal affairs as may ultimately remove the evils under which the city has so long suffered. The very uumerous fac- tions now stiuggling for supremacy in our city politics are the principal causes of the awful con- dition of the government, and indicate clearly the imperative necessity of returning to the car- dinal principles of the old charter, by which all the executive power was placed in one hand— that of the Mayor—and all the legislative power was vested in the Councils. That is the only true reform, and that we must have, sooner or later. ‘ expt t whic this city tion, Tur Don Quixorre ayo Sanco Panza or Tue Sovrn.—For some months past the news papers of all parties have devoted consider- able attention to Chevalier Qnattlebam Brooks, the Don Quixotte of South Carolina, who has boasted that by lifting his hand in the House of Representatives he could have broken up the government in a bloody revolution, and who has declared his readiness, if necessary, to take a thousand men, march upon Wash- ington, capture Fremont, rob the Treasury, and proclaim the millenium of a Southern con- federacy. But the knight has travelled about «© much without his equire that we began to be- lieve he was without one. This, however, is not 80, for we have found the happy man. Every Don Quixotte must have his Sancho Pan- za,and the Sancho of Brooks is @ certain Mr. Yeadon, of Charleston, And he fills the charac- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1856. ter perfectly. As Brooks is tall and raw-boned, chivalric and ferocious, somewhat resembling the Don, 80 is Yeadon a squat little fellow, with a reund, jolly face, like the veritable Sancho. In fact, his personal resemblance to the great origi- nal Sancho is very remarkable; he looks like him, wa'ks like him, and talks like him; and his inquiring mind seems to run in the same interest- ing channels of natural philosophy. In all the travels of Sancho the First, he found a subject for his philosophical reflections in anything that might turn up. So with this South Carelina Sancho of Bully Brooks. At Boston, among the abolition- ists, he entered into a learned discussion with Garrison and Parker on the blessings of niggers, the capabilities of niggers, the duties of niggers, the price of niggers, and the absolute necessities for niggers in the hot regions of the South. At Saratoga he falls in with the spiritualists, and proceeds at once to an investigation of the secrets of rapping, table turning, and other spiritual manifestations. At Buffalo he chops the logic of the dark lantern, the horrors of Popery, aud the elastic properties of India rubber with Millard Fillmore, Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs and Horace H. Day ; and at the Clifton House, Canada, (where his Don Quixotte was afraid to go) this same enterprising Sancho boils over with first rate poetry, which he leaves upon the record in glorification of Niagara Falls. In fact, at the Falls he drops the philosopher and becomes a saint and a poet. He is inspired (bad liquor, perhaps,) ; but the instant he comes back to this city, his mind returns to Fremont’s Catholicity, the advantages of disunion, and the price of niggers. He has lately gone home—our Philosopher Yea- don, the faithful Sancho of the chief of the Quattle- bums—and there he is entertaining the world with the most wonderful discoveries of Fremont’s love adventures amon g the fair maids of Charleston before he had entered upon his world- reaowned adventures among the wild Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the great deserts of the far West. Was there ever such a prying and inquiring Sancho as this squat built and round-faced little Sancho Yeadon since the epoch of Paul Pry? Such is the Sancho of Don Quixotte Brooks? He is a perfect Sancho-- a regular little old woman— aud will have the last word. On his way home he gave us a shot, va)ling us little better than a pirate and a scoun drel; bat as in his postscript he allowed us to alter his abusive epithets to suit ourselves, we dismiss him with our thanks ; for, like the rider of Balaam’s ass, though his object was a curse, he ended with a blessing. Pass him. DeMORALIZATION OF THE AGE--FINANCE AND Powitics—The tendency to materialize every- thing which belongs to human life is one of the rurest evidences of a moral decline, both in indi- viduals and nations. Great success in commerce, a great intax of wealth, tbe discevery of gold or of new and lucrative channels of trade, have, ever since the world began, preceded the decline of pubiie virtue. We may sometimes doubt whetber the possession of those things we most delight in ob’aining is not the prelude to our own destruction. Revolutions are constantly pre- ceded by general laxity of morals and the abuse of wealth. “The passion for luxuries, conve- uiences and enjoyments, when once excited, be- comes quite illimitable.”” The saying of the celebrated Abbe de Mably is often quoted by po- litical economists when treating of thissubject. A profound mora)ist, as well as political writer, he reflected deeply on the connection between poli- ties and morals.—Sur le Rapport de la Morale cvee la Politique. “Nest on que riche?” said he. “On veut étre grand. Nest on que grand? On veut tre riche Ext on a riche a& grand? On veut ére plus riche e plus grand encore?” Unforta- nately, these wishes when gratified, result chiefly in ministering to the senses, in the enjoy- ment of material advantages, in palaces, stately dwellings, rich apparel and rivalry in display. The public taste becoming demoralized, sensual- ity of all kinds prevails. It is thus we pay the penalty of success. How strikingly true is this at the present moment, in our own country! How true of other prosperous countries! In France the love of luxury is fa sepping the stability of public order. A fright- fu! explosion of public credit seems to be close at hand, in the general desire for wealth by spe- culation and artifice. Paris, in all its grades of society, from the duchess to the soubrett, is watching the turns at the Bourse or the specula- tions of the Credit Mobilier. Here, at home, every eye is turned to the paper fabrics erected in Wall street, each observer more or less de- pendent for his own stability on that of others ‘The love of pleasure, the desire to shine, is at the botrom of it all. The greatest commercial ad- ventures are undertaken for the final reeult of a piece of Sevres, or a set of chairs in the style of Louis XV., or an Aubusson carpet, a fine hoase and asuperb equipage. This is what the great struggle is for in most casea, The example of snecers stimulates the unsuccessful, and the un- scrupulous are constantly on the look out for the opportunity of making bold strokes for fortune, regardless of the consequences of failure. Schemes of all descriptions are set afloat, institutions of every porsible form are created to entrap the un- wary, and the crimes of civilization are conatant- ly and daringly increasing. It is no wonder that cashiers and tellers de- fraud their banks—that brokers forge the bills they offer for sale—that trustees defraud their principals—that fictitious dividends are made oa worthless stocks—and that thousands of the nonvewwe riches Tush to Europe to enjoy, in the vortex of dissipation, their suddenly acquired wealth. Even our political institutions—those neces- sary concessions to great public nece: originally founded on principles of justice and virtue, become tainted in the heated struggles for wealth snd grandeur. Men who have become rich by building steamers and bridges aspire to to the highest offices in the gift of the nation— money is lavished by thousands for the corrup- tion of the electors—the very safety of the Union #« now trembling in the ecale, weighed down by the dollars to be gained by an unrestricted traffic in the colored race; and all that wealth may be- come more wealthy, and grandeur more grand. No failares, no bankruptcies, no prisons check the ardor of an excited community. Our gilded statues are constantly falling from their pedestals, and crumbling into dust, without impresing any moral upon the passers by. Onward presses the crowd to find riches for themselves, and none etop for a moment to see the pits before them. ‘Truly this is @ sorry pictare; but who can deny its truth? The developements which from day to day are made in our very midst, justify the severity of these remarks. The vices of society are multiply- ing around us. Money is becoming the god of our idolatry. From euch ewindlers as Schuyler, down to such rogues as Huntington, every class furnishes its representative of unmitigated ras- cality; and a8 long as this thirst for material enjoyment continues—as long as the masses wor- ship with such reverence the operators who in success find protection for their rapacity and crimes—so long will an honest public sentiment be without influence, and the quiet virtues of life be shoved violently to the wall. Tue Frevce Ramway Deravurers—Wur THER Exrrapition 1s Sovaut.—It is now some five weeks since our police succeeded in arresting in this city the sub-cashier of the Northern Rail road of France, and several others, said to be his accomplices, charged with having, in connection with the principal cashier, abstracted from the bureau of that company over five thousand of its shares, valued at something more than a million of dollars. Subsequently the principal cashier himself was arrested near Newburg, in this State, and another of the abeconding defaulters, named Guerin, about the same time fell into the hands of the London police. Those that were arrested in this country are now in charge of the keeper of the Eldridge street prison. Their names are Charles Carpentier, cashier; Louis Grelet, sub- cashier; Eugene Grelet, brother to Louis; Au- guste Parot, a Parisian horse dealer, and Made- moiselle Felicite Debud, the friend and travelling companion of the latter. It will be somewhat interesting to our readers to know why it is that these French visiters of ours are still retained in custody, and why, if there was any legul ground for their arrest and extradition, they have not ere this regaled their eyes with a sight of la belle France. We believe that the reason of their continued absence from their country is to be found in the fact that there never was any ground for their arrest and detention for a criminal offence. The conven- tion between France and the United States for the surrender of criminals, under color of which they were arrested, is dated November 9, 1843, and it provides for the delivery iu either country of persons charged with the com mission in the other country of the offence of murder, in its several grades—attempt to com- mit murder, rape, forgery, arson, and embezzle- ment by public officers. We believe that the crime imputed to these persons does not come under this category. They could only be held, if atall, on the ground that their offence came under the head of “embezzlementt by public officers;” but, as they were not public officers in the sense in which that phrase is regard@ed—that is, not officers of a national, State or municipal government—of course this class of offence has no application to theirs. The principals, Carpen- tier and Louis Grelet, were employés of a private company—the Northern Railroad Company of France—and in that capacity are charged with making free with property belonging to the company, or lodged with it for safe keeping. If, therefore, their stockjobbing operations led to embezzlement of stock, that embezzlement was not committed by them as public olicers, nor does it differ in principle from the crime of a grocer’s boy who would make free with the francs in his master’s till—and consequently there is no ground whatever for their extradition under the treaty. And if this be so in regard to them, it is £0 @ fortiori in regard to the other pri- soners, Eugene Grelet, Mr. Parot and Miss Feli- cite Debud, who never were in the employment of the company, and could not therefore have embezzled their funds, The facts in regard to these latter persons are that young Grelet had made up his mind to emigrate to this country, and was induced to wait for a week or two, that his brother might accompany him; that Parot had sold out his stock of slow Flemish horses, and had come over here to purchase a lot of our fast pacers, and that Madcmoiselle was prevailed upon to accompany him in his expedition. As regurds these three there is no show of either justice or equity in detaining them in custody, and their original criminal arrest at the instiga- tion of Belmont or his agents was entirely illegal, and a suit ought to be brought against Belmont and his agents for the act thus committed. We think we have chown pretty conclusively, also, that as to Carpentier and Louis Grelet— even supposing them to have done every thing alleged against them, (which they deny on oath) they cannot be held criminally, and cannot be extradited under the treaty, Their counsel, Mr. Galbraith, took the same view of the matter im- mediately after their arrest, and applied for a writ of haless corpus to have them discharged from custody. The counsel for the company evi dently had the same misgivings on the subject, for to counteract the effect of Mr. Galbraith’s movement, he instituted a civil suit against the priconers for damages to the amount of $1,000,- 000, and bad their bail fixed at half a million of dollars, As it was impossible for them to procare bail to that amount, they still, as we have said, remain in the custody of the keeper of Eldridge street prison—the criminal charge and the pro- ceedings thereunder remaining in the meantime in statu quo. Now, the device of institutiog a civil suit again st these persons is a mere trick, resorted to for the purpose of delay. It is not even suggest- ed that any of them have property which could go to satisfy a judgment if it were obtained against them. It is thought, perhaps, that wiile subjected to this sort of persecution, they might make some admissions which would inculpate them, and on which an order for their extradi- tion might be obtained. That is the chief object to be atiained. The shares embezzled belonged to one of the Rothschilds, and it was at the in- stance and by the exertions of his agent here— August Belmont—that the parties were arrested. Iaving been confidential clerks of the Northern Railroad Company, they are cognizant of all the scheming and trickery of the Rothschilds aud other financiers on the Bourse. They are fa- miliar with the legerdemain employed to give a alse value to stocks, to raise them and depress them at pleasure—a trick not unknown or un- practised among the bulls and bears of Wall +treet; and it is feared that if they are allowed ‘oremain here they may make some disclosures which would be anything but pleasant to these financial kings. Hence the effurte made © procure their arrest in the first instance, and bence also the attempts to procure their extradition or deportation to Fiance, with or without law. And we should not be at all sur- | ptised—considering the importance to the Rothe. childs of keeping these persons from blabbing— | if, in case of the inability of Belmont to procure an order for their delivery to the French authori- | ties, an effort should be made to have them | kidnapped and transported to France, just as ' Polari, who committed the robbery of the crown | jewels of the Princess of Orange, was kidoapped from thie city in 1831. Altogether, the case of | there French defaulters is an interesting one, and we sball carefully watch and note ite progress. If they are amenable under the con vention, let them be immediately brought before the proper tribunal, and let the question be de- cided; but if they are not eo amenable, let them not be harrassed and persecuted, and kept in a state of constant alarm and dread that unfair means should be resorted to to abduct them from thiscountry. Fair play is a jewel, Monsieur Belmont. CommoporE Srockton at Berexn Hi— AvyoruER Liz Narxp.—In that little obscure concern, the Daily News, the unscrupulous organ of a little democratic faction of this city, there appeared yesterday the following editorial para- graph :— Commovorx Stockton —This gentleman made at Bergen, N. J., yesterday, ntwhioh he poe gg Frewont as a dislionest man and a coward. The Commo- Core takes his disappointment ratber hard. This hardly confirms the announcement the fost maie with such a Sista, Wnet ihe emamcdave hed etenn ous asthe weellp —In reply to which we received yesterday the following telegraphic despatch from Princeton, to wit:— Princeton, N. J., Oct. 80, 1856. © Jamas Gorpon Bexyert, Eprrox New York BeRawy:— DEAR SIk— Please to notice the New York News, tn re- ation to my remarks ut Bergen, for a speech it was not it (the report) is ap al I eaid no word per- sonally disrespectful of Colonel Fremont . R. F. STOCKTON. From a briefreport of these remarks of the Commodore at Bergen, in one of our Know No- thing exchanges, he repudiated the idea that he was about to fuse with the Fremont party, and said that “the leaders of the two great opposing parties (republicans and democrats) were both unscrupulous and untrustworthy. He would not join one more than he would the other. He was surprised that there were any adherents of such leaders.” And this is probably pretty near the mark of what the gallant Commodore did actually say at Bergen Hill. He cannot, however, permit for a single day, the libel of the Mews against himself and Fremont to go unanswered, but employs the telegraph to give an immediate quietus to the libeller. The fact is, that with the personal knowledge which Commodore Stockton possesses of the honesty and bravery of Col. Fremont, as illustrated in the California war, it is simply impossible that the former can be enlisted among the villitiers of the latter. Thus, almost as rapidly as they are hatched, are the libels, forgeries, aud fabrications against Fremont knocked in the head. The instant they are coupled with a respectable and responsible name, they are knocked in the head. Ex-Jevez Warrmne’s Frmst anp Last Ap- PEARANCE AT THE Acapemy.—We published yesterday a speech delivered at the Academy of Music by ex-Judge Whiting in support of his own nomination for Mayor, which may be con- sidered as the valedictory address of the ex-Judge to a wicked political world. We know Rynders, and we know Thersites; we have heard of Xantippe, and we can conceive Mrs. Caudle, even in breeches: but henceforth, it will be im- possible for any one to think of any of these dis- tinguished characters without recalling the image of ex-Judge Whiting at the Academy of’ Masic. It was competent for the ex-Judge, on his ap- pearance at the Academy, to have delivered a speech that would have done himself credit, and enlightened the public on the issues involved in the present contest for the Mayoralty. He could have shown—no man better—by what entangle- ment of bad laws and corrupt ‘men, this city has been plunged into an inextricable maze of confu- sion, debt, and anarchy. He could have drawn the picture of a good city government, such as New York ought to have; he could have placed, in contrast to this, a faithful picture of the government as it is; and he could have showa us, clearly and forcibly, wherein the things that are differ from what they ought to be, and insensi_ bly led his audience to the discovery of the remedy which ought to be applied. If Judge Whiting had thus employed the hour or hour aad a half which he occupied at the Academy of Music, be would have sent away his audience satisfied, and might have convinced at least some that a man who knew the work to be doae so well might perbaps be the best man to do it. But he did nothing of the kind. He drew no picture, either of the past or present; he laid his finger on no sore; he denounced no mischief that has not been denounced long ago; be added not one iota to our former knowledge of the existing mis- government and of the means of correcting it; and, what is more, he was quite right in avoid- ing these topics, For, be it well kaown, Judge Whiting could not denounce the official corrup- tions and mischiefs which have been the ruin of the city government, without denouncing him- self as a sharer and prime mover in all of them. He bas bad a hand in all the wrongs which we muet destroy, if we want a healthy government; he could not attack them, he could not even biat at them, without making a public confessioa of his own iniquity. He therefore wisely abstained. For thirty years or thereabouts, ex-Judge Whiting has been an officeholder of some grade or other in the city of New York, and affiliated, successively, with almost every political party that hasruled the day. There are two things ia his career that are worthy of note. The first is the extraordinary financial skill which he must possess to have saved a large fortune, (by tome estimated at half a million of dollars,) out of small salaries ranging from two to four thousand dollars. We are not aware whether the friends of the ex-Judge consider that this quality qualifies him for the Mayoralty; it is certainly a rare gift. The second point in the career of Mr. Whiting is the fidelity with whieh he has clung, through every change of rank, social position and circumstances, to the manners and diction which were his chief characteristics when he was employed to prosecute pickpockets and disorderly women in the petty police courts. Aman of more versatility, rising to a post which enabled him to associate with gentlemen, would have endeavored to acquire at least something of the refinement and civil manners which mark the mutual intercourse of gentlemen. Mr. Whiting has not got rid of a single atom of his famous vulgarity. If the trath were known, he no doubt piques himself on the coarseness of his language; like some of the Frenchmen of the Marat school, he seems to think that so long as he retains rude habite and filthy language, he may indulge as freely a8 he likes in official cor- ruption. His address on Wednesday was pre- cisely in the style of his old vituperative ha- rangues on the trial of some wretebed’ pick- pocket; he screamed at his rivals and every one else who opposed him, with the same gesture, and the same tone and the same words as may have served him a few years since when he used to bully petty juries into convicting drunken women of the town. No one who heard him could wonder in the least at his having acquired among his brethren of the bench a nickname expressive of his coarsenoss, his virulence, and his gross personalities against bis opponents, If these two pointe—which, as we said, are the only ones that loom out of Judge Whiting’s long career—are qualifications for the Mayor: alty, then no doubt Judge Whiting will be elected. THE LATEST NEWS, SY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPRS, Interesting from Washington. THE BALTIMORE BONAPARTBS—IMPORTANT DECISION’ OF TBE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR—APPOINTe MENTS, BTO. Wasnrnaton, Oct. 30, 1856, Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, cousin to the presen} Emperor of France, bas been stopping at Willard’s for several days. It is understood here tuat he is pressing. some propositions upon Secretary Davis, by which he: wishes sutticient inducements to be held out to his (Bona-- Pparte’s) son to induce him to re-enter the American army. Tho Secretary of the Navy, who returned to Washing: on this morning, hardly recognised his old quarters, 80° completely changed had everything been for the better, by the direction of Mr. Welsh, his efficient ehief clerk, who has exercised admirabie judgment tn his selection of pew furniture, rich curpetings, &c., for the Navy Depart- ment, The Secretary of the Interior to-day reversed the ruling of Judge Minot, late Commissioner of Pensions, making @ discrimination between the volunteer and regular ser- vice. The Secretary decides that the soldiers in either bind of service are equally entitled tc bounty land, This cecision will remove the suspension from a great number of claims for bounty lund, now pending in the office, under the act of 1855, There is a good deal of speculation here at present ee to the formation of Buchanan’s Cabinet. It is like eount~ ing chickens before they are tatched. General Thomas J. Rusk, of Texas, is spoken of by those supposed to bo in the confidence of Mr. Buchanan, as certain to be his Postmaster General Charies E. Carr has been appointed Collector of Cus- toms at San Pedro, Cullfornis, vice Williams, deceased; and Joseph H Snyder, Assayer of the Branch Mint ip California, vice Wiegard, removed. Lieut. James M. Selden is ordered to the revenue cut~ ter Jefferson Davis, at Port Townsend, Washington Ter ritory; Lieut. John E. Viason to the revenue cutter Wm. L. Marcy, at San Francisco; Lieut. Dennis Bremond tothe Lewis Casa, at Now Orleaus. Geveral Harney has arrived and commenced prepara- tions for the Fiorida campaign. Fremont Mass Meeting in New Jersey. Euzanstu, N. J., Oct. 30, 1866, ‘The republicans had an immense mass meeting and torchlight procession here las’ night. The Rocky Moun- tain and other clubs of Newark were in atten iance, also large delegations from Plainfield and Rahway. The meet ing was addressed by Governor Robinson, and ©, S. Smith, Frq., of Kansas, Tbe German clubs retired a short distance, and were addreased by speakers in their own language. Destractive Con: FIRE AT OUDENSBURG. Ocpexsnuna, N. ¥., Oct. 30, 1866. A fire broke out here at 6 o’clock this morning, in the Franklit House, which in less than three hours was to- tally destroyed. Mr, Cruikshank, the proprietor, esti- Maies his loss at $4,000. He was insured $2,800 on the furniture and building Many of the inmates lost all they possessed. It was repored that some persons perished in the flames, but the report is doubtful. A defective: cbimoey caused the fire. PILE AT LA GRANGE, GA. Baurimors, Oct. 30, 1856. Eight buildiags, containing a iarge amount of goods, to La Grange, Ga., were destroyed by fire on the 25th inst. One of them was biows up, injuring « number of par- song. FIRE AT PAWTUCKET, R. I. Provinance, Oot. 30, 1856, ‘The card and fancy paper manufactory of Ray Potter in Pawtucket, wes destroyed by fre this afternoon, The Joes is about $10,(00, and is covered by insarance, The Propeller Sandusky Ashore. Conngavt, Obio, Oct. 30, 1856. The propeller Sandusky was biown ashore here thie morning. She was bound to Buffalo with a cargo of 3,000 bbis four, which is all under water. We have no fur- her particulars. Bank of the Republic of Rhode Island, Pxovipence, Oot. 30, 1856. There was on crror in the telegraph report of the statement of the Bank of \he Republic. It said the depo- - site were lees than $400.00; it should have been leew ban $400. Horrible Murder by a Slave. Barrons, Oct., 30, 1666, ‘Two slaves, belonging to Lewis B. Norwood, of Graa- ville, N. C., murdered their master, 0 pouring a large pot of boiling water down his throat. New Orleans papers of Fritay are received. Fatal Raltiroad Accident. Tavwrom, Mass., Oct 90, 1856. Charles Whitroy, a conductor on a freight train, wae run over by & train and instantly killed, near Mansfield, . this alternoon. Heavy Robbery at Easton. Eastox, Pa., Oct. 30, 1866. Toe store of Jecob Hay, of this place, was entered last - night, and robbed of over $1,000 worth of black and fancy rilke, Mr. Hay offers a large reward for the recovery of the Property or the detection of the thieves, Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. Bowron, Oct, 30, 1866, Governor Gardoer bas appointed Thursday, the 27th of November, for » day of thankrgiving in this State. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Peivapatruta, Oct. 30, 1856. Stocks heavy. Pennsyivania 6's, 843,; Reading Rail- road, 38; Long Island Kellroad, 12; Morris Canal, 1394; Penpeyivanis Railroad $9 BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Bacrimons, Oct, 39, 1856, uncred beeves were offured in our marget to of which 00 were driven East and the remainder At $6 Ot $8.45 net, Hoge soid at $7 60 a $5, New Onirans, Oct 50, 1856, Cotton—Sales to day,6,600 bales; the market}was easior, but prices not quotably changed. ' Corn sells at 0c. A few barrein of the new crop of molasses, being tho first oflered, fetched 62c. Wheat, $1 65 for red, xchange on New York at sight, 3 per cent premiom. Ciiaxumston, Oct. 20, 1886, Cotton— Sales to day, 1,40 baler, at 11%. for good middling. Borrato, Oct. 30—1 P. M. Flour—Interior demand firm, Sales 1,200 bbis., at $6 $6 31 tor good to cheice Michigan, and $6 50 for fair extra Chio, Wheat lower. Sales 24,000 bushels, at $1 16 for Chicago spring, aud $1 $0 for red Illinois, Corn dal. Sales 4,000 bushels, from store, a: bic. Oats unc! . Saler 7.600 burhels, at [8c Canal freights to New York earier—I8e for corn, and 280. for wheat. The wind ie from the northwest, and the feet is ali in, ba: receipts tre limited, Bevrato, Oct. 30—6 P. M. Flonr opened steady, and closed dull; eales 20,000 bbis., St $6 25 a $6 31 for god Micvigan, $6 57 & $6 62 for extra Obio aud Indiana, Wheat lower, rales of 40,000 bushels, a $1 15 for Chicago spring, $1 30 for red Tilinote, Gorn Gull; salen of 80,000 Dushele at Bic. Ovia steady: en as So. day aa Barley ull; saies at 8! 20. Wi wales at Sle ‘ane! freighw—Corn if¢., aa ye. to New Yorm. for the pte at acon to day—i.348 bois, our, 41,740 buebe's whea., 54.650 bushels corn, 15,500 burbels cate, Canal 1,068 bbls, four, 152,004 bushels wheat, 38,775 bushels corn. Onwrao, Oct. 30—7 P.M Wheat fe dull and lower. Ssies, 10,000 bushels, at $2 8 for white Micnigen, celivered trom store Canad quiet Corn i@ offered at Séo.; bids at 540.: no Parley in steady: 6,200 buabels, delivered at Cieve- At S1 25 Canal freight to New York steaty—four ‘Me., wheat Ife , aed corn 16¢ = Importe—79,000 bushele wheat and 11300 bushels corn, Canal exporta—5,s00° flour, 77,000 bushels wheat amd 8,200 bushel City Intelligence. Fine in Weer Founrsesta “raner.—Between 2 and ® o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out to the rag~ tifying house of Jobpson & Lazarus, sitaated in Weal Fourteerth street near Teath avenue, The flames spreaci with great rapidity throughout the whole of the weet building. The firemen, by their united exertions, suo- ceeded in preventing the flames from extending to the adjoming premises, The lose will probably amount tc several thouennd dollars, inclading the building. Tae lore is folly covered by insurance im city companies, Tm origin wae not ascermined. The Fire Marenal has the matter under investigation. Paving Park PLack.—The work of laying the Rolgian pavement in Park place, between College ploce and Choreb ‘was commenced om Monday. The con- tractors tertaken to perform the work for $1 44 requare yard, This is 75 per cent less than was paid: for eitniar work in other parts of the city, Parsyet Accionst —Mre. Ellen McCormack, residing at No, 24 Bank atroet, Newark, N. J., while cross Broadway iast evening, was knocked down and run ever anomnitus. She was A ‘wes 80 much injured hat Rh wan Sh ouppaned ‘would live the night through, ‘